Firass Abiad says many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks targeting Hezbollah were civilians.

Lebanon’s health minister has said what is happening in his country is “carnage”, as hospitals struggle to cope with the number of casualties from two days of widespread Israeli air strikes targeting the armed group Hezbollah.

Dr Firass Abiad told the BBC it was “clear” that many of the 550 people killed in Monday’s attacks were civilians, including children and women.

  • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    58·
    2 months ago

    If Democrats see Gazan children as totally expendable, what makes you think they see anybody else differently?

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Politicians see Gaza as relatively unimportant because American voters generally see Gaza as relatively unimportant. Poll after poll shows that voters are far more interested in affordable housing and women’s rights. And by “voters” I mean the people who will actually vote, so that doesn’t include you.

      When voters think Gaza is more important than affordable housing and women’s rights, politicians will too.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      And Republicans don’t? They’re seen as a commodity by Republicans and one they aren’t willing to invest in hence every argument being about money at heart.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      You don’t care about anyone in Gaza. If you did, you would stop being so fucking obtuse and accept that what you are doing is directly contributing to a possible Trump victory. An outcome that will mean literal extinction of the Palestinian people.

      And I don’t mean these “is it or is it not genocide? I don’t know! 😉” games. You’re gonna find out real quick what extermination of an entire ethnic group actually means, and by posting shit like this you are directly contributing to that outcome.

      And you’re gonna have to live with that.

      (All of this is giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are actually a real person who wants to end the genocide but are simply misguided about how elections work in the US)

      • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        OK so I should vote for the people who quietly stand by and let weapon manufacturers profit from genocide? Who now Israel invade Lebanon? They are so ethical and deserving of my vote.

        How do you even know Trump would cause extinction of Palestinians??? That’s pure speculation while the current people in power are actually letting war crimes happen

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          How do you even know Trump would cause extinction of Palestinians

          Yeah dude only one way to find out, right?

          You are a fucking fool.

          • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mlEnglish
            14·
            2 months ago

            Meanwhile the US just gave an 8.7bn dollar package to Israel to continue killing Gazan and now Lebanese children with terror methods like the pager attack.

            But Trump will somehow be worse? So I should support the people who are complicit in what’s going on now?

            No I refuse